http://www.resourceshelf.com/2006/10/07/search-briefs-google-execs-tell-engineers-fewer-products-please/ A daily newsletter with resources of interest to information professionals, educators and journalists. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:47:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2006/10/07/search-briefs-google-execs-tell-engineers-fewer-products-please/#comment-15697 ResourceShelf » Briefs: Google and Video; EBSCO Enhances the Value of Health Library for Hospitals; LexisNexis Launches New Estate Practice Product Sun, 21 Jan 2007 02:24:15 +0000 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2006/10/07/search-briefs-google-execs-tell-engineers-fewer-products-please/#comment-15697 [...] + Google may buy video game ad firm (via CNN/Money) Wasn’t it just a few months ago that Google execs said they offered to many products? We assume that was a discussion about to many “search” products and and not advertising services. [...] [...] + Google may buy video game ad firm (via CNN/Money) Wasn’t it just a few months ago that Google execs said they offered to many products? We assume that was a discussion about to many “search” products and and not advertising services. [...]

]]> http://www.resourceshelf.com/2006/10/07/search-briefs-google-execs-tell-engineers-fewer-products-please/#comment-13454 ResourceShelf » Search Briefs: Radio AdWords By End of Year, What Happened to Focus on Core Search? Wed, 08 Nov 2006 05:44:03 +0000 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2006/10/07/search-briefs-google-execs-tell-engineers-fewer-products-please/#comment-13454 [...] Quick Comment: We realize that no project happens overnight especially at a fast growing comany like Google. However, it seems that the AP and LA Times reports about company execs telling engineers fewer products was just stories. Since then the new tools or new companies keep flowing. + YouTube + Google Custom Search + A New Push Towards Radio From the article: “We don’t want people to have to learn about 20 different products that work in 20 different ways,” [Sergey] Brin said. “I was even getting lost.” The article goes on to say, “Google admitted this year that its internal audits discovered that the company had been spending too much time on new services to the detriment of its core search engine.” [...] [...] Quick Comment: We realize that no project happens overnight especially at a fast growing comany like Google. However, it seems that the AP and LA Times reports about company execs telling engineers fewer products was just stories. Since then the new tools or new companies keep flowing. + YouTube + Google Custom Search + A New Push Towards Radio From the article: “We don’t want people to have to learn about 20 different products that work in 20 different ways,” [Sergey] Brin said. “I was even getting lost.” The article goes on to say, “Google admitted this year that its internal audits discovered that the company had been spending too much time on new services to the detriment of its core search engine.” [...]

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